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Joshua Green / Businessweek:
The Secret Gingrich-Santorum ‘Unity Ticket’ That Nearly Toppled Romney  —  It's one of the great untold stories of the 2012 presidential campaign, a tale of ego and intrigue that nearly upended the Republican primary contest and might even have produced a different nominee …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Priebus slams ‘idiotic statements’ by Republicans as reason for losses  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Friday said the party played into a “caricature” of itself in the 2012 election cycle, citing “idiotic statements” and “biologically stupid things” said by Mitt Romney and other GOP candidates.
Discussion: Politico
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Andrew Kohut / Washington Post:
The numbers prove it: The GOP is estranged from America  —  Andrew Kohut is the founding director and former president of the Pew Research Center.  He served as president of the Gallup Organization from 1979 to 1989.  —  In my decades of polling, I recall only one moment when a party …
Cynthia Johnston / Reuters:
Marine kills two at Quantico base, takes own life  —  (Reuters) - An active-duty Marine shot dead two fellow service members at a base at Quantico, Virginia, then barricaded himself in a building and killed himself, prompting a brief lockdown of the base, the Marines said on Friday.
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Washington Post:
Three Marines die in shootings at Quantico
Anthony Castellano / ABCNEWS:
1 Person Killed at Quantico Marine Base
Discussion: The Agonist
Nolan Finley / detroitnews.com:
Detroit native Carson could break barriers in Senate race  —  Dr. Ben Carson is a Black History month staple.  Each February, schoolchildren hear the story of the impoverished African-American boy from Detroit, a struggling student whose mother made him read two books a week until he bloomed into a scholar.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
In Israel, Obama draws race parallel
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Weasel Zippers
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
The Man Who Could Turn Texas Blue: Rick Perry  —  By opposing Medicaid expansion, the governor could hurt the GOP in a must-win state.  —  AUSTIN, Texas—Big in all things, Texas leads the nation in failing to provide health insurance.  About one in four Texans are uninsured, the highest percentage in any state.
Wall Street Journal:
Health Insurers Warn on Premiums  —  Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation's biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans.
Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
Obama Twitter account re-tweets John Lennon's bloody glasses  —  President Obama's Twitter account has re-tweeted a picture of John Lennon's bloody glasses that was originally posted by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono.  —  Ono's tweet gained plenty of attention on Twitter after it was posted Thursday morning.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Twitchy and ABCNEWS
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Good news for people who like bad news about inequality  —  So here's some bad news: The rise in wealth inequality?  It's permanent.  —  This graph, which shows wealth inequality is even more severe than income inequality, isn't related to the study.  It's just more bad news.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Netanyahu apologizes to Erdogan  —  AMMAN—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan spoke by telephone Friday, after a prolonged effort by President Barack Obama and his aides to overcome a deep chill that had settled into the relationship between Israel and Turkey.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Democracy Now:
Phil Donahue on His 2003 Firing from MSNBC, When Liberal Network Couldn't Tolerate Antiwar Voices … In 2003, the legendary television host Phil Donahue was fired from his prime-time MSNBC talk show during the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.  The problem was not Donahue's ratings …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: Can the Republican Party Recover From Iraq?  —  The war almost killed the GOP.  Whether it can come back is yet to be seen.  —  The air has been full of 10th-anniversary Iraq war retrospectives.  One that caught my eye was a smart piece by Tom Curry, national affairs writer for NBC News …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Paul Brinkmann / bizjournals:
Jeb Bush to return $270,000 paid by fraudster Osorio  —  Former Gov. Jeb Bush has agreed to return $270,000 that he was paid as a consultant to convicted fraudster Claudio Osorio and Osorio's companies.  —  An agreement outlining Bush's settlement payment was filed Thursday in bankruptcy court in Miami.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Politico:
Why Republicans still run K Street  —  Democrats control the White House and the Senate, but you wouldn't know it by looking down K Street.  —  Republicans hold more than 30 of the 50 highest-profile, in-house lobbying jobs in town, a POLITICO analysis found.
Michael McConnell / Wall Street Journal:
The Constitution and Same-Sex Marriage  —  Next week the Supreme Court will be asked to decide an issue in an area in which it has said it has no jurisdiction.  —  For most Americans, the Supreme Court cases being heard on Tuesday and Wednesday next week are about same-sex marriage.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Treasure Island Trauma  —  A couple of years ago, the journalist Nicholas Shaxson published a fascinating, chilling book titled “Treasure Islands,” which explained how international tax havens — which are also, as the author pointed out, “secrecy jurisdictions” where many rules don't apply — undermine economies around the world.
Discussion: msnbc.com and Prairie Weather
Sorourke / nation.foxnews.com:
Wasserman-Schultz: My Aides on Brink of Starvation  —  WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: MY AIDES CAN'T AFFORD GOOD MEALS … On Tuesday, FL Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her colleague VA Rep. Jim Moran openly whined about the impacts of spending cuts on their personal office budgets.
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator Sponsors Measure Calling For U.S. Withdrawal From The U.N.  —  Senate Republicans are using the debate around the Fiscal Year 2014 budget to push as many of their far-right ideas as possible, including now a move to have the United States completely withdraw from the United Nations.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Biden's One-Night Paris Hotel Tab: $585,000.50  —  As it turns out, Vice President Joe Biden's London stay in February was not the most expensive part of his trip.  A government document released on February 14, 2013 shows that the contract for the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand came in at $585,000.50.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Twitchy
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Is Hillary Clinton Too Conservative To Become President?  —  While she was at the State Department — and out of politics for four years — Clinton's party was moving to the left, and fast.  “Now that she's unshackled by the boundaries of her office, she'll step up to the mic,” says Singer.
Denver Post:
Tom Clements murder probe: Did white supremacist gang order a hit?  —  Colorado corrections officials are investigating whether a paroled white supremacist prison gang member at the center of the investigation into the execution-style murder of state prison chief Tom Clements was ordered by the gang to do a …
David S. Bernstein / thephoenix.com:
Mrs. Warren goes to Washington  —  Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's credentials, support, and savvy make her almost untouchable — and she knows it.  —  Elizabeth Warren was the only senator on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, aside from the chair and ranking minority …
Mary L. Dudziak / New York Times:
Obama's Nixonian Precedent  —  ON March 17, 1969, President Richard M. Nixon began a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia, sending B-52 bombers over the border from South Vietnam.  This episode, largely buried in history, resurfaced recently in an unexpected place: the Obama administration's …
Discussion: Lawfare
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Ryan's budget rejected in Senate on 40-59 vote  —  The Senate rejected House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget Thursday night.  —  Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) forced Senate Republicans to vote on Paul's plan through an amendment she offered, which failed on a 40-59 vote.
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Gay marriage group puts out new ad  —  A national coalition backing same-sex marriage is releasing a new ad Friday, leading into next week's Supreme Court debate on the Defense of Marriage Act.  —  The $150,000 ad buy is the latest step in a $1 million campaign.
USA Today:
Congress turns to domestic policy after budget battles  —  WASHINGTON — A brief reprieve in the fiscal battles between President Obama and a divided Congress will allow two contentious and politically divisive domestic issues — guns and immigration — to take center stage in the national debate this spring.
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:   Senate to take up gun control after break
 
 
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New York Times:
IPhone Contracts With Carriers Under Scrutiny in Europe
Discussion: GigaOM and The Verge
Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
United States v. Auernheimer, and Why I Am Representing Auernheimer Pro Bono on Appeal Before the Third Circuit
Discussion: TechCrunch
Democracy Now:
Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Bill Clinton Reaches Out to Ashley Judd and Her Rival
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Head Start Programs Gutted By Sequestration Cuts
Discussion: The Plum Line
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Google's trust problem
Michael Lind / Salon:
Private sector parasites
 Earlier Items: 
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Senate Democrats unite to defeat balanced budget motion
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Associated Press:
Pope Francis Calls For More Dialogue With Islam
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa
Discussion: ThinkProgress
CNN:
Mom: 2 kids shot, killed my baby
Adam Winkler / The Daily Beast:
Did the Assault-Weapons Ban Kill Gun Control?
Discussion: protein wisdom and NewsBusters
Sapna Maheshwari / Bloomberg:
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Simple Plan  —  Of all the vast literature on the current plight …